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Wilderness Returns: A Natural & Cultural History of the Rattlesnake Wilderness
… is to serve you as a guide to the Rattlesnake Wilderness. I share these 13 personal essays and stories in the attempt to connect you with a place I love. This collection uncovers oral histories of past residents, interviews with biologists and activists who have made substantial contributions …
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Wilderness Returns: A Natural & Cultural History of the Rattlesnake Wilderness
… is to serve you as a guide to the Rattlesnake Wilderness. I share these 13 personal essays and stories in the attempt to connect you with a place I love. This collection uncovers oral histories of past residents, interviews with biologists and activists who have made substantial contributions …
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Cultural Wilderness: How the Historical Evolution of American Wilderness Values Influence Cultural Resource Management within Wilderness Areas in National Parks
… for understanding the evolving concept of wilderness in the United States, and the ways in which that concept has advanced or impaired preservation policy within designated Wilderness areas.The perceived conflict between wilderness and culture has changed over time and created disconnect …
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Wilderness rivers: environmentalism, the wilderness movement, and river preservation during the 1960s
Wilderness Rivers explores America's treatment of rivers in the context of the social and political climate of the 1960s. The decades following the Second World War brought about significant changes in the way Americans perceived their environment. Higher levels of affluence and education, …
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Taming the city wilderness
The City Wilderness (1898), a settlement study conducted in Boston's South End neighborhood. The study was greatly influenced by European values of settler colonialism, and subsequently shaped traditional methods of early planning efforts. This process is now ingrained in the institutional …
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Wilderness Women: Embodiment in Nature
Virginia Woolf makes clear in her book A Room of One's Own that "[A] woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write…." This statement extends to all endeavors by women, including sport. The gap between men and women's sports is not bridged by monetary compensation. The domination of …
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The Social Benefits of Wilderness
… will, and path. Because our experiences in wilderness are radically different than our experiences outside wilderness, the wilderness can instill in us different, better habits and understanding of relationships. In particular, the wildness of wilderness shows us the falseness of the …
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Developing Successful Wilderness Stewardship Partnerships
… budgets and available staffing dedicated to Wilderness stewardship have created a need for and subsequent boom of Wilderness stewardship -focused nonprofit organizations across the country. Previous literature addresses the elements of a successful partnership in a more generalized fashion, …
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The Social Benefits of Wilderness
… will, and path. Because our experiences in wilderness are radically different than our experiences outside wilderness, the wilderness can instill in us different, better habits and understanding of relationships. In particular, the wildness of wilderness shows us the falseness of the …
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Developing Successful Wilderness Stewardship Partnerships
… budgets and available staffing dedicated to Wilderness stewardship have created a need for and subsequent boom of Wilderness stewardship -focused nonprofit organizations across the country. Previous literature addresses the elements of a successful partnership in a more generalized fashion, …
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Wilderness experience : a Jungian model
… which varying attitudes to, and experiences of, wilderness may be understood. A classical Jungian developmental framework is utilised for these purposes. The paper begins with brief definitions of the concepts pertinent to this work followed by a fairly comprehensive summary of Neumann's …
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Wilderness visitor managment and Antarctic tourism
… increasing numbers of tourists who are visiting wilderness areas in Antarctica. Previous research has addressed Antarctic tourism largely as a policy issue. This research looks at Antarctic tourism in the context of the debate on wilderness and focuses on the implications for tourism and on the …
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Perceptions of a guided wilderness trail
… Interviews with past and present guides of the Wilderness Leadership School were used to identify four Important factors in a successful guided wilderness trail. Using postal questionnaires, guides and members of the Wilderness Leadership School were asked to rank nine trail scenarios. The …
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Wilderness And Aesthetic Values In The Antarctic
… framework ... areas of outstanding aesthetic and wilderness value' (Annex V, article 3.2). In order to develop these frameworks, procedures and techniques used in environmental planning are considered for their applicability and practicality in the severe Antarctic environment. The phrase in the …
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A Vegetative Analysis of Hercules Glades Wilderness
Cedar glades of Southwest Missouri were studied quantitatively. The Bray-Curtis ordination technique of indirect gradient analysis was applied to the sample plot data in an attempt to determine whether sites located on varying percent slope, exposure, aspect, or stage of successful would group …
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Beyond Wilderness: Wildness as a Guiding Ideal
… to William Cronon’s essay “The Trouble with Wilderness or Getting Back to the Wrong Nature,” found in The Great New Wilderness Debate. Cronon is himself responding to many things, in large part to Bill McKibben’s The End of Nature and also to the wilderness vision typified by Dave Foreman; …
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Beyond Wilderness: Wildness as a Guiding Ideal
… to William Cronon’s essay “The Trouble with Wilderness or Getting Back to the Wrong Nature,” found in The Great New Wilderness Debate. Cronon is himself responding to many things, in large part to Bill McKibben’s The End of Nature and also to the wilderness vision typified by Dave Foreman; …
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An Analysis of Wilderness Concepts and Values
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-14T06:34:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7821071.pdf: 7316957 bytes, checksum: b480ceccb7267f96ee52aa1a6471c0d9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1978
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Wilderness, A Spiritual Antidote to the Everyday: A Phenomenology of Spiritual Experiences in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness
… the phenomena of spiritual experiences in wilderness. The motivations for the research included: growing interest in empirical studies on the relationship between spirituality and human health, increasing concern over human’s loss of spiritual relationships with nature, and personal …
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